I’m just driving back from Croatia and if we didn’t avoid the motorway in some countries we’d have to spend money on 3 separate vignettes.
If they had detectors on the borders then the proceeds from the vignette could go to only the countries that you passed through.
how much would that cost then? Since countriea have different costs of living and use the money to maintain the roads (with personell) it would have to be paid by the countries standards. if you try tonunify that, and charge i.e. the price of austrian vignete, then other, poorer countries people could not use the roads in their country anymore. Except you exclude them from paying it, but that is against the european law (germany tried that and failed). If you make it the price of a country like croatia, then roads in austria could not be maintained as the personal (that needs to be paid) could not live from that.
the only possible solution would be something like the Eurail pass fr r trains, where you pay a flat amount for a sepecific set of countries.
what the fuck is a vignette? i’ve never even heard the word before, never mind had to put one on my car.
Also a new term to me as an American (at least in that sort of usage, I’ve heard the word when used to talk about art and literature and such)
So I googled it.
It’s sort of an alternative to toll roads. Basically instead of paying a toll to use a highway every time you get on it, you just pay once, get a sticker to put on your car to show you paid it, and it’s good for X amount of time, and you can use that highway as much as you want until it expires.
Different countries of course have different rules on which roads and types of vehicles require a vignette.
I suppose you can kind of think of it as being similar to vehicle registration but only for specific roads. Or if you’ve ever needed some kind of parking permit to park in certain areas or lots, it’s like that except for driving.
OPs gripe, I suppose, is that if you drive around different countries in Europe, you might need to pay for multiple different vignettes, and probably have a few different stickers on your car, and it would be nice to just have one that covers all of Europe instead.
It also seems like that is sort of a thing for large trucks in a handful of countries that have agreed to use a common vignette (Eurovignette) but it’s only for those big commercial vehicles, not regular passenger cars, and not all countries have adopted it.
…thanks for that update to a seven month old comment. there was no way i could have learned that in the meantime.
No idea what brought this post onto my feed, Lemmy’s algorithms get a bit fucky sometimes and I wasn’t exactly looking at the age of the post or expecting it to be 7 months old.
But you’re welcome. Thank you for being a sarcastic asshole to someone trying to answer your question. Hope you have the day you deserve, bud.
i’ve actually never seen that happen. what’s your sorting set to?
and i didn’t intend to sound like an asshole. sarcastic yes, but not an asshole. sorry about that.
